Vicky Van Eyck

Vicky Van Eyck is an associate of the Sustainable Finance Lab, based in Brussels.

If EU leaders let banks write the rules, the digital euro will fail as public money
2 July 2026 by Martijn van der Linden, Mark Sanders, Thomas Bollen and Vicky Van Eyck
The digital euro is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore people’s access to public money and to realise a sovereign payment system in the digital age. Trilogue negotiators should not squander it by designing it in a way that serves the banking sector first and the public second.
The European Parliament rapporteur is wrong about the digital euro
20 September 2025 by Dr Martijn Jeroen van der Linden, Laura Casonato and Vicky Van Eyck
The European Parliament’s rapporteur on the digital euro file is parroting the banking lobby’s claim that a digital euro would trigger bank runs and cripple lending — this is just not the case.
- Opinion
Why are the banking lobby afraid of a digital euro?
1 March 2024 by Vicky Van Eyck and Martijn van der Linden
Europeans deserve a digital euro that transcends the narrow interests of the banking lobby and embodies the promise of a fairer and more competitive monetary and financial landscape.
- Digital
- Green Economy